Three great, very different recordings reviewed, and thoughts about why Americana is over (for me).
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Lovers keep on lovin’. Believers keep on believin’. Sleepers just stop sleepin’. Cause it won’t be too long. What’s THAT supposed to mean? Aside from the Beatles’ 1965-1969 output, it’s…
“Will It Go Round In Circles” was one of the biggest hits in a legendary career
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
The gang celebrate their 25th episode with a visit from a guitar legend.
Redman joins the party and you can just smell the kush he’s lighting up with Shabba Ranks.
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Every Wednesday, music nerd and serial list-maker Drew brings you a small, highly specific, pop culture-related list to either enjoy or inspire debate. He remains the only Popblerd staffer pretentious enough to name a column after himself. First things first: these aren’t necessarily the most underrated albums of all time. That’s a different column for a different day, and for my money, would probably be populated with a fairly tiresome amount of Boston bands (still the liveliest music city I’ve […]
Not even a major power outage can stop the Friday Five!
Slightly Stoopid’s DeLa takes time from promoting the band’s new album to give us a soulful list of Desert Island Discs.
Of all of the at least pretty good, moderately successful alt rock bands of the mid-90s, the one that everybody in my high school loved was the Toadies. The Dallas…
Rebelution’s latest album debuted at #1 on Billboard’s reggae chart. Check out what two members of the band have to say about their Desert Island Discs.
Beavis and Butt-head had their cultural moment in 1993. All of 1993. Their cartoon was the #1 show on MTV (even after they couldn’t say “fire” anymore because some kid…
The staff looks at this year’s list, pauses for reflection, and launches into a rock nerd debate.
Scott Malchus looks back at season one of the great 90’s animated series, “The Wild Thornberrys,” now on DVD.
Join Kelly Stitzel as she dips her Converse-clad toes into the rad waters of ’80s skateboarding movies with Thrashin’.
Dave Steed reaches the letter R this week on his quest to have you listen to every crappy 80’s song ever!
A look at songs that aren’t necessarily good or bad, merely ones that, because of the climate of the music world during their release, somehow, someway, were not the massive…
Not every album released on Not Lame Records was the very definition of power pop, but 10 years on, Mark Helm’s Everything’s OK remains an album of powerful pop. It’s an important distinction…and a great record.
We made a list of our favorite guitarists of all time, and this week, we count down from 50 to 36. Who made the cut?
Chickenfoot. When word of the band name of Sammy Hagar’s new “supergroup” leaked out, half the internet responded by saying “that’s the dumbest band name I’ve ever heard…..and just when…
I was dead asleep when the phone rang. It was three o’clock. I picked it up and mumbled hello. I figured it was my ex-wife. She calls late at night…
The Caught on Tape series continues with new author Rob Hoffman this week, as he reminisces about some backstage shenanigans with the young Red Hot Chili Peppers.
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Last week, I was trying to figure out the awkwardly titled decade called “The 2000s.”Á‚ Yes, there’s been an A.D.D. quality to the last 10…
“Favorite Zeroes” Á¢€Å“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.Á¢€Á¢€”Sergei Rachmaninov Á¢€Å“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.Á¢€Á¢€”Plato…